1343 2 0
|
He draped the sheet over her body. Blood spotted the fabric, rose petals on snow.He left the pistol, but pocketed the first edition she'd signed. Part of his fee.In the park, he ditched the glasses, fake mustache, and anorak before making the call.The publisher called an…
|
134398
|
We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
|
1342123
|
But this ache wouldn't leave me.
|
134286
|
The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
|
134254
|
I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.
|
134263
|
Day by day people went missing. Reports of the ads being answered with a robocall solution to their problems were at first unconfirmed. Yesterday my best friend told me his emotional distress call was going to be channeled into a free trip to what he call
|
134200
|
Oh, you aren't going to lecture us, for heaven's sake?
|
134221
|
...to know they are not alone
|
134298
|
It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
|
134232
|
A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
|
134232
|
The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything
|
1342139
|
|
134200
|
In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
|
134232
|
Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.
|
134200
|
Even the old medicine woman seemed to grin with a perverted sort of understanding when she opened the door to find Lys waiting outside. She was comfortable nowhere and ready to flee at any moment.
|
134211
|
Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
|
134273
|
At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
|
134132
|
I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
|
134132
|
I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
|
134184
|
She loves you when your words leave her dirty, semi-transparent, at times, overexposed.
|
134154
|
The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.
|
134100
|
Meanwhile it was four o'clock in the morning, Pacific time. Seven o'clock eastern. The cat was busy chasing imaginary mice around the hammock—at least Manuel hoped the mice were imaginary. He loaded the next digital images onto the screen. It seemed to
|
134122
|
At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
|
1341106
|
gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
|
13411610
|
|
134152
|
We talk of his time in the jungle.
|
1341159
|
They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
|
134154
|
In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
|
134110
|
"Maybe…" he began searching for some comforting wisdom. "Maybe it's like this. Husbands live for their wives. Mothers live for their children. And children...well...until they're husbands or wives, they live for themselves."
|
134141
|
When I was young I bowed with such forgotten politeness, a young salesman, enchanting, in the silken trades. But I remembered the sun also when it was in Hades, which had forgotten to set, or to rise.
Peace, also, dangled there by the neck. Such a pre
|
